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Re:Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key ... by timonoko on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:54PM (#24206420)
Not suprising. Lock-Picking Lawyer or some other Youtube star has shown you can easily duplicate keys from a photograph. When they are hanging from a keyring of a security guard forexample. Larger variety of keys too, including rotating disk type keys.
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Re:Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key ... by CydeWeys on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:57PM (#24206431)
It's been known you can duplicate keys from photographs for decades (way pre-YouTube). This was standard spy stuff during the Cold War.
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Re:Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key ... by timonoko on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:08PM (#24206478)
Except they did not have HD-cameras readily available. This case was some random street shot with a phone.
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Re:Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key ... by CydeWeys on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:13PM (#24206495)
You're vastly underestimating how high resolution film is.
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Re:Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key ... by scrumbledober on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:05PM (#24206465)
You can reproduce a fingerprint from a picture taken with a modern digital camera.
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